3.3 世俗的虚空
3.3 The Void Of The Secular
世俗主义完全关乎手段,并且会积极地分散人们对目标的注意力。因为目标属于宗教的范畴。
Secularism is all about the means and actively distracts people from the ends. Because the ends are the domain of religion.
世俗主义会告诉你行动的重要性,却只会对结果给出含糊的断言。因为结果属于宗教的范畴。
Secularism will tell you the importance of action but will only give you vague assertions about the results. Because results are the domain of religion.
世俗主义会告诉你必须投票,却不会给你一套实质性的伦理观念,供你据以投票。因为实质性的伦理观念属于宗教的领域。
Secularism will tell you that you have to vote but won’t give you a substantive ethical vision on the basis of which to vote. Because substantive ethical visions are the domain of religion.
世俗主义会告诉你要平等地尊重每一个人,却不会告诉你什么才算值得尊敬。因为尊重与可尊敬性的核心,属于宗教的范畴。
Secularism will tell you to respect everyone equally but won’t tell you what it means to be respectable. Because the core of respect and respectability is the domain of religion.
你或许会以为,这一切意味着:人们越是世俗化,就越是变得中立,越是与任何具有伦理实质的东西脱节,越是与任何有意义的事物失去联系。
You might think that all this implies that as people become more secular, they become more neutral, more detached from anything of ethical substance, more disconnected from anything of meaning.
但你会错了,因为心永远不会空虚。自由主义世俗的空洞所留下的空隙,很快就会被企业集团生产、由以盈利为导向的大众传媒散布的低俗文化产物所填满。这些随时待播的内容将淫秽邪恶(fahisha)与贬低他人加以常态化。于是,这些东西成了大众的宗教,成了他们品格的内涵。这正是世俗主义被刻意设计要达成的目的和终局:把你变成一个顺从的奴隶。
But you would be wrong because the heart can never be empty. The emptiness created by liberal secular vacuousness is quickly filled up with base cultural artifacts produced by corporate conglomerates and disseminated by a profit-driven mass media at the ready to broadcast and normalize fahisha (obscene iniquity) and denigration. This becomes the religion of the masses, the contents of their character. This is the end, the purpose that secularism is meant to produce by design: To make you an obedient slave.
“行为凭意图”是这种毒药的解药。时刻将你的行为和你的存在与其本源相连,深入反思你的目的与归宿。这只有你的造物主、创造你的那位才能赐予。因此,请洗净你心中因卑下的自由主义、世俗主义和消费主义文化而积累的污垢,将自己与唯一真正有价值的事物相连。这正是所寻求的瓦西拉(连接或途径)。
“Actions are by intentions” is the antidote for this poison. Constantly connecting your acts and your existence to their Source. Deeply reflecting on your purpose and your ends. This is something that only your Creator, the One who made you, can provide. So cleanse your heart of the accretions of base liberal secular consumerist culture and connect yourself to the only thing of true worth. This is the wasila (connection or means) that is sought.